Large Scale Central

New Tourist open coach

Modeling
#1

First coach is a version done last year. This later version (in progress), more follows the original C&S car. For occupational health and safety reasons, this coach will have a safety bar at waist height across the open section of the car. For this car, the floor area in the ‘open’ area is flat, allowing passengers to stand and observe nature. Seating is at either end of the car, along with a toilet and stove for the colder months. I have added centre longitudinal seating in the centre section of the coach.

#2

Post removed as info duplicated in most recent posting with updated photograph.

#3

Nice bash Tim. Looks like you are starting with a Bachman J&S coach.

#4

I added the waist high safety railing. This is a very easy conversion on the basic B’mann undec coach and is a way to use all those anorexic, generic Chinese-made people that we all purchased, not realising their very slight build and very small head size.

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#5

Love them both! A bash worth considering… Wonder how hard that would be with a Kalamazoo?

#6

Mik, no doubt the mod could be done to any coach. This is the latest (and last) open excursion car for the line. Freelance design, incorporating an enclosed cabin. Interior is from a B’mann combine kit. I cut up the seating to give individual seats. These were then glued in a bank of eight seats to fit longitudinally in the open section. Of cause a safety railing will be fitted eventually.

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#7

I like that last one a lot. I’ve always been fond of the passenger cars that had a large observation area at one end.

#8

Tim,

You’re going wild. Those look great! I hope you don’t mind some plagiarism. :wink:

#9

Ric,
I based my cars on a C&S example (based on two photographs, although the car seemed to change dramatically over the years, finally being boarded up and looking like a boxcar). If any find my conversion stimulating enough to use as inspiration, then I am pleased. While I stated that the final car was ‘final’, there will be another, using the interior of a LGB dining car, in the open-ended section of the coach. My tourist train does need a snack/beverage car. The first car is based loosely on what I believe was called a ‘dolly’ car.

#10

This car is my final, final excursion car. The open area uses the interior from a LGB 4-wheel dining car. It fits with minimal alteration to the LGB parts. This will give me a snack/beverage car for the tourist train. The window area behind the counter top serving area was left intact for the safety of the waitress. Waist high safety railing fitted. Daggy bits around the arches will be corrected when the roof moulding is permanently attached to the car body.

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